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ROUSH HEARTS CONSERVATIVES
Re: Mike Dooley's letter (under "Right Into My Trap") in Reader
Mail's Greenlight
Special and David Gonzalez's letter (under "Failure to
Communicate") in Reader Mail's Not So
Fast:
Mr. Dooley writes: "Thus, unwittingly, Mr. Roush reinforces my point that Liberals are befallen with the psychological malady of projection "where they accuse others of the very attitudes and behaviors they themselves engage." Two paragraphs later, he scribbles: "Unfortunately, Mr. Roush's testimony has that "some-of-my-best-friends-are-black" type flavor to it." Projection, you say Mr. Dooley?
Mr. Dooley asserts: "Not being a Conservative nor living as one, I am not surprised Mr. Roush thinks these stories of Liberal rejection and outrage are vastly overblown if not totally imaginary..." only later to state, "But, as I did, if you pass from being a Liberal to being a Conservative, woe will be unto you." Huh?
According to Mr. Dooley: "Conservatives write that way because
they genuinely don't like you. Liberals write that way because they
think themselves the very embodiment of reason, decency, sweetness
and light." I think, Mike, you have successfully slandered a great
number of conservatives and liberals. Has it ever occurred to you
that most conservatives and liberals are people of good will who,
confident in their philosophical positions, acknowledge areas of
agreement, while vigorously and civilly debating their differences
in the pursuit of greater understanding?
-- Mike Roush
P.S. David Gonzalez writes: "I offer this difference between
liberals and conservatives: Conservatives think that liberals have
terrible ideas. Liberals feel that conservatives are terrible
people."
To the second part of this formulation, I say nonsense!
IN VAIN
Re: Christopher Holland's letter (under "Brilliantly Flawed") in
Reader Mail's Greenlight
Special and Daniel Mandel's The Hero of
Trafalgar at 250:
When Christopher Holland says, "The Duke of Wellington met [Nelson] during his last visit to London and thought him the most vain and silly, the biggest fool he ever met," he is only giving half the case.
Sir Arthur Wellesley, as he was then, was supposed to meet with Lord Castlereigh. During his wait, "a gentleman, whom from his likeness to his pictures and the loss of an arm, I immediately recognized as Lord Nelson," was shown in. And indeed Nelson began talking about himself, rather absurdly.
Then something Wellesley said made Nelson wonder. He got up, went out of the room, and when he came back he was, as Wellington put it, "altogether a different man, both in manner and matter."
And Wellington went on to say, "I don't know that I ever had a
conversation that interested me more.... I saw enough to be
satisfied that he was really a very superior man."
-- Joseph T. Major
LADY THATCHER
Re: Jeffrey Lord's post, Who Is David
Frum?, on AmSpecBlog:
Regarding Jeffrey Lord's comparison of Sarah Palin to "middle
class" Margaret Thatcher, I would point out that Margaret Thatcher
had a degree from "elitist" Oxford (and also that the term "middle
class" has elitist implications in the UK that it does not have
here): "Margaret Roberts attended a local state school and from
there won a place at Oxford, where she studied chemistry at
Somerville College (1943-47). Her tutor was Dorothy Hodgkin, a
pioneer of X-ray crystallography who won a Nobel Prize in 1964"
(Source: website of the Thatcher Foundation). Throughout her
career, Margaret Thatcher has demonstrated respect for ideas and
education. She is no populist, and you would not have caught her
claiming to be the British equivalent of "Joe Six-Pack."
-- Cathy
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Betty| 2.4.09 @ 1:54PM
I know many undesirable facts about the Alaska National Guard Generals. They are unethical and corrupt. Sarah Palin caters to General Campbell who is a ruthless commander and a liar. He is a smooth talker but has no substance. There should be an investigation. Where are all the honest politicians hiding?